The Belgian federal government will quietly introduce a tax on rewritable CDs May 1, the office of the country's minister of economy confirmed. Officially called a "compensation for personal use," the ...

Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives. In a development that will likely cause headaches for some ...

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pinnacle Systems has acquired VOB Computersysteme, a privately held company based in Dortmund, ...

The popularity of rewritable CDs has grown rapidly over the last two years, with more than 60 percent of all PCs sold at retail now featuring CD-RW drives. But hot on their heels is new DVD technology ...

Imagine if microchips and rewritable CDs could hold a hundred times more data. The way digital data is stored starts with the material it's stored on, which, in rewritable CDs and many microchips, is ...

AMSTERDAM — Four industry leaders have finished their work on the Mount Rainier specification, a project to make writing, deleting and rewriting data to a CD as simple as accessing a floppy disk.

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